Alternative societies for a pluralist socialism /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Alternatives to capitalism in the 21st century
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Series Page
- Alternative Societies: For a Pluralist Socialism
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Further reading
- 1 Alternative Economies
- Communism
- Attempts at communism
- Assessing communism
- Co-operatives
- Cooperation Jackson
- Participatory economics
- Critique of parecon
- Leaders and participatory democracy: five cases
- Participatory budgeting
- Barcelona en Comú
- Fatsa
- Marinaleda
- The Zapatistas and Chiapas
- Less paid work
- Slow society
- Eco-localism, confederalism, and the Global South
- Rojava
- Alternatives to surveillance capitalism
- A democratic public media
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- 2 Social Alternatives
- Alternative education
- Neill and Summerhill
- Freire and dialogical education
- Illich and deschooling
- Intentional communities and communes
- The Ranch
- Food counterculture
- Punk cuisine
- Freeganism and counterculture
- Alternative social centres
- Alternatives to prison and punishment
- Restorative justice and community internationally
- Community policing
- Politics and social democracy
- Concrete utopias and decolonial alternatives
- The practice of concrete utopias
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- 3 Utopianism and Its Critics
- Utopias and change
- Left utopias
- Feminist and anti-racist utopias
- Materialism, conflict, and change
- Stepping aside, materialism, and change
- Utopianism and capitalism
- Materialism, utopianism, and Marxism
- Totalitarianism, utopianism, and change
- Pluralism and change in utopia
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- 4 Socialism and Its Critics
- Communism, social democracy, and co-operative socialism
- Communism
- From communism to social democratic and co-operative socialism
- Right-wing and neoliberal criticisms of socialism
- From Nozick and Hayek back to socialism
- Green and feminist criticisms
- Ecology and the implications for socialism
- Feminism and the implications for socialism
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- 5 The Democratic Economy
- From an extractive to a circulatory economy
- Institutional change and socialism
- Plurality and reversibility
- Scaling up
- Localism and its limits
- National and public ownership
- Community wealth building internationally
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- 6 Alternative Globalization
- Political globalization
- Below global approaches
- Alter-globalization in society
- A Fifth International
- Open borders
- Philosophical and principled arguments
- Economic and social arguments
- Are open borders possible?
- Conclusions
- Further reading
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Index